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O i 4 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT 306F REVERE ROAD HILLSBOROUGH. NORTH CAROLINA 27278 11k, 6 O R A N G E C 0 U N T Y MEMORANDUM TO: Orange County Board of Commissioners FROM: Greg Szymik, Planner III (Current Planning) SUBJECT: Wildwood Subdivision - Homeowners Association Comments .DATE: June 10, 1987 I contacted Steven Mortkowitz, the President of Wildwood Homeowners Association, to discuss residents opinions about the subdivision. Specific questions were: Are there any problems in Wildwood that the Homeowners Association was concerned about; and has the Homeowners Association taken a position on whether it would consider transferring ownership of the Wildwood recreation area to a public agency. In response to the first question, Mr. Mortkowitz said that the only specific concern that the Homeowners Associa- tion had about Wildwood subdivision was the failure of the developer to deliver on promised improvements. As an example, street, lights promised to residents have not been installed. Thus, cooperation from the developer was the Homeowner Association's primary concern. In response to the question about the recreation area, Mr. Mortkowitz said that he personally favored transferring the recreation area to a public agency and would support such a proposal to the Homeowners Association. The recreation area is presently equipped for passive recreation use: picnic tables, access trails. The Homeowners Association found that while it could afford to install active recreation equipment such as playground equipment, it could not afford and, in fact, may not be able to obtain liability insurance. Unless that situation changes, it is unlikely that the Homeowners Association will be able to make much use of the recreation area• transferring it to public ownership seems an attractive alternative.